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USS Thresher (SSN-593) USS. Thresher. (SSN-593) USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark. On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod ...
The driver was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide and sentenced to nine to 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 years in prison. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] The incident further inflamed racial tensions in the area and increased hostility towards the Haitian community.
Gary Plauché. Leon Gary Plauché (November 10, 1945 – October 20, 2014) was an American man known for publicly killing Jeffrey Doucet, a child molester who had kidnapped and raped Plauché's son, Jody. Plauché shot and killed Doucet as he was being escorted through an airport by law enforcement to face trial for what he had done to Plauché ...
At his arraignment on April 16, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. [38] After undergoing surgery for his wounds, [39] Rivera was charged on March 28 with first-degree murder of a police officer, first-degree attempted murder, and criminal possession of a weapon. [40] [41] He faces life imprisonment without the possibility of parole if found ...
In September 1955, an all-white jury found Bryant and Milam not guilty of Till's murder. Protected against double jeopardy , the two men publicly admitted in a 1956 interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered Till, selling the story of how they did it for $4,000 (equivalent to $45,000 in 2023). [ 6 ]
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse (born January 3, 2003) is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin —two fatally—in August 2020, amid protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. He had traveled to Kenosha during the unrest, and joined a group of armed people who said they were ...
On 3 January 1804, a 29-year-old excise officer named Francis Smith, a member of one of the armed patrols set up in the wake of the reports, shot and killed a bricklayer, Thomas Millwood, mistaking the white clothes of Millwood's trade for a shroud of a ghostly apparition. Smith was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, later commuted ...
On December 22, 2011, the shooting's 27th anniversary, James Ramseur died at age 45 of a drug overdose in an apparent suicide. [123] [124] In 1989, Barry Allen was charged with robbing a 58-year-old man of $54. [125] In 1991, he was convicted and sentenced to 3.5 to 7 years. [126] Goetz achieved celebrity status after the shooting.